· 12/29/2008
Carroll v. Sanders
Citations
- 551 F.3d 397
- 60 Collier Bankr. Cas. 2d 1692
- 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 26421
- 2008 WL 5386525
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “Although not an ‘absolute’ imperative, the ‘rule of last antecedent’ creates at least a rough presumption that such qualifying phrases attach only to the nearest available target.”
- using the last antecedent rule to interpret a statutory provision
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Judges: Gilman, Sutton, Kethledge
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